Date:	Thursday 19 April 1956
Time:	day
Type:	Gloster Meteor F Mk 8
Owner/operator:	43 (China-British) Sqn RAF
Registration:	WH466
MSN:	G5/415596
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Leuchars, Fife (ADX/EGQL)
Destination airport:	RAF Leuchars, Fife (ADX/EGQL)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8 WH466: Notified as awaiting collection 22/10/51, delivered to the RAF 24/10/51. RAF Service career was with 222 Squadron and 43 Squadron RAF Leuchars - the latter coded "R" and from 4/4/55.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19/4/56: Undercarriage raised in error for flaps on roller landing at RAF Leuchars, Fife. Aircraft sank into the runway, ventral tank exploded on impact. Aircraft landed safely, but not repaired (as 43 Squadron were re-equipping with the Hawker Hunter). WH466 was Struck Off Charge as Cat.5(c) on 19/4/56 and broken up for spares and produce at Leuchars.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.179 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 51)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.191-192
4. The Fighting Cocks: 43 (Fighter) Squadron By Jimmy Beedle
5. 43 Squadron ORB (Operations Record Book)(Air Ministry Form AM/F.540) for the period 1/1/56 to 31/12/60: File AIR 27/2775/2 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8430159
6. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WH
7. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1956.htm

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26 October 1953

WH467

263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF

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14 Moore Road, Whitton, Ipswich, Suffolk

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Jun-2008 13:00	JINX	Added
18-Jan-2012 09:57	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source]
18-Jan-2012 09:57	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Source]
15-Jun-2020 01:20	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jun-2020 01:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]